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Self help inc makeover culture in american life and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle learn more enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. In self help inc cultural critic micki mcg millions of people turn to self improvement when they find that their lives arent working out quite as they had imagined the market for self improvement products books audiotapes life makeover seminars and regimens of all kinds is exploding and there seems to be no end in sight for this trend. In self help inc makeover culture in american life cultural critic micki mcgee asks what our seemingly insatiable demand for self help can tell us about ourselves at the outset of this new century. A lucid treatment of the modern obsession with work and self improvement it will strike a chord with its acute diagnosis of the self help trap and its sharp suggestions for how we can address the alienating conditions of modern work and family life. Self help inc makeover culture in american life by micki mcgee oxford university press 2005 2996 cloth oxford university press 2005 2996 cloth the culture of self help has grown so tightly interwoven with american society that it defies conventional sociological analysis